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On November 19, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously voted to adopt Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity (“Regulation SCI”), a set of rules designed to stre...
Last week, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Representative Scott Garrett (R-NJ) and Representative Bill Huizenga (R-MI) sent a letter to SEC Chair White ...
The 2014 Spencer Stuart US Board Index for S&P 500 companies focuses on board composition, turnover and director succession planning. The report concluded that companies that added three ...
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In the past month, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed, one rulemaking requirement was finalized and no rulemaking requirements were proposed.
As of December 1,...
The CRD IV package, comprising the Capital Requirements Directive IV[1] (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements Regulation[2] (CRR), sets out requirements in relation to the remuneration po...
On 14 November 2014, the UK Takeover Panel published a response statement (RS 2014/1) to its July consultation on miscellaneous changes to the Takeover Code (PCP 2014/1). The consultatio...
Jay D. Hanson, a board member of the PCAOB, recently spoke about the PCAOB’s efforts to address issues raised by audit committees.
The board of the PCAOB began its outreach to audit c...
In an opinion entered on November 17, 2014, Judge Stuart M. Bernstein of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York held that Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Issues Preliminary Denial to Exemptive Relief Applications for Operation of Non-Transparent Active ETFs
Industry Update
CFTC Announces Self-Executing...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the petitions for panel rehearing by the SEC and Amnesty International on the conflict minerals case, and have ordered the parties to file su...